I'm the enemy I guess because I never bother with demos and consider them pointless. I get everything I need from a youtube video of unedited gameplay and would rather not spoil the game or waste bandwidth.

LOL you're no enemy. But you hit the nail on the head. These days you can find out so much about the game on the web, from forums, on youtube, etc. I suppose I'm just being nostalgic for that time when loading up a demo was usually my first experience with seeing a game in action. Things have changed naturally since then.

And who could forget PC Gamer's Coconut Monkey!

The first PC Gamer I bought came with an "exclusive" Half Life campaign. I was like OMG THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING!

Oh how the world changes.

If I am unsure about a game, I wait until it is 5$. No big loss then.Recently, I only ever installed demos of games not yet out. IF I'm really unsure about a game, the pirate bay is full of demos.

That is true. 10 to 15 years ago, the cheapest game was $30.

At least for RPGs there was nevere a demo that made me buy a game but plenty that drove me away until the game was cheaper and quite often I ended up enjoying the full version way more than the demo.

I wouldn't use the demos for games today. PR companies are so well trained today, I'm sure as hell they would prepare the demo to show every turd as a thing I want to have.

You can't trust demos today, just as you can't trust commecrials. Back in the day, most demos were quite longer (remember shareware version of Doom?), so you could make an opinion.

Now, they are pretty much useless. Only if you want to test if a game runs on your machine. But even that isn't reliable. Demos are much smaller than full game, so they use less resources.